vb.net

In visual studio 2008, when I use something akin to the following snippet:
Dim myVar
.... ' all sorts of stuff that might initialise myVar '
if not isNothing(myVar) then
myVar = new Object()
end if
myVar.ToString()
visual studio warns me on the last statement that myVar might be uninitialised, and a nullreference exception could oc...

Hi all!
My routine to check for updates is run as a separate process. Exiting the application is required to update, so a dialog asks the user, when an update is found, if they want to exit now. f they do, the code (from the update thread) calls Application.Exit().
However, if the FormClosed event of any form that needs to be closed ne...

I just saw on the Async CTP website that the next version of VB.NET will have iterators. I guess they included iterators because the rewriting process is similar to the one used for the new async/await feature.
But reading the document that explains the feature, I realized that VB.NET iterators will actually have features that are not a...